Publications

Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Alperen Ozis, Hayrettin Eren Yildiz, Mitash Ashish Shah, Zhiqi Huang, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Salman Avestimehr (2025). TruthTorchLM: A Comprehensive Library for Predicting Truthfulness in LLM Outputs. EMNLP 2025.

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Amir Ziashahabi, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Mostafa El-Khamy, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Salman Avestimehr (2025). Reject Only Critical Tokens: Pivot-Aware Speculative Decoding. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop.

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Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Sungmin Kang, Zhiqi Huang, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Catarina Belem, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Alfy Samuel, Daben Liu, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Salman Avestimehr (2025). Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering. ICLR 2026.

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Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Sungmin Kang, Tuo Zhang, Baturalp Buyukates, Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy (2025). Reconsidering LLM Uncertainty Estimation Methods in the Wild. ACL 2025.

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Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Baturalp Buyukates, Anil Ramakrishna, Chenyang Tao, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Jieyu Zhao, Salman Avestimehr (2025). Do Not Design, Learn: A Trainable Scoring Function for Uncertainty Estimation in Generative LLMs. NAACL 2025, Findings.

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Erum Mushtaq, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, J Ding, Chenyang Tao, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Salman Avestimehr (2024). CroMo-Mixup: Augmenting Cross-Model Representations for Continual Self-Supervised Learning. ECCV 2024.

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Metehan Oguz, Y. Umut Ciftci, Yavuz Faruk Bakman (2024). Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts. ACL 2024 SIGTURK Workshop.

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Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Baturalp Buyukates, Chenyang Tao, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Salman Avestimehr (2024). MARS: Meaning-Aware Response Scoring for Uncertainty Estimation in Generative LLMs. ACL 2024.

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Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Salman Avestimehr (2024). Federated Orthogonal Training: Mitigating Global Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Federated Learning. ICLR 2024.

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Erum Mushtaq, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Jie Ding, Salman Avestimehr (2023). Federated Alternate Training (FAT): Leveraging Unannotated Data Silos in Federated Segmentation for Medical Imaging. ISBI 2023.

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